Cap Times for iPhone vs MagCMS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cap Times for iPhone
An interactive local news app for the Madison, Wisconsin community and progressive political followers. It offers in-depth reporting on politics, government, education, and business, with continually updating analysis and opinion.
- Latest news, photos, analysis, and data
- Share stories via email and social media
- Save stories for offline viewing
- Search thousands of articles
- Interactive local news coverage
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Download the relaunched Cap Times for iPhone, with many new and updated features. Cap Times for iPhone is an interactive local news app produced for the Madison, Wisconsin community as well as progressive political followers everywhere. Designed exclusively for the iPhone™ and iPad™, this app is free to all users. Dedicated to progressive politics and in-depth reporting, the Cap Times covers topics including politics, government, education, business and more. The app provides continually updating access to local news, analysis and opinion. Features: • See the latest news, photos, analysis and data • Share stories with your friends via email, Twitter and other social channels • Save stories for offline viewing • Search through thousands of articles stored in our database
MagCMS
This app allows publishers to preview their digital magazines before publishing them on the Magzter platform. Ensure interactive content and functionality are exactly as intended for readers.
- Preview digital magazines
- Check interactive content
- Verify functionality
- Publish to Magzter platform
- Publisher registration required
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Magzter, the world’s largest and fastest growing global digital magazine newsstand, introduces the MagCMS app exclusively for publishers using the Magzter digital publishing platform. The new MagCMS app allows publishers to quickly and easily preview their digital magazines, including all interactive content and functionality, before publishing them to the Magzter platform. With the MagCMS app publishers can be completely confident that the experience they provide to their readers on Magzter will be exactly as they intend it to be. Use of the Magzter MagCMS app requires registration as a Publisher on Magzter.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MagCMS at 5.0 against Cap Times for iPhone's 3.7. MagCMS also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Cap Times for iPhone's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MagCMS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Cap Times for iPhone ships an update every 16 months, MagCMS every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cap Times for iPhone | MagCMS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 10 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lee Enterprises | Magzter Inc. |
Customer experience
Cap Times for iPhone
MagCMS
In-app purchases
Cap Times for iPhone
No in-app purchases
MagCMS
No in-app purchases
Questions
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